now let's bring in these excessive director of greenpeace international jennifer morgan jennifer champagne corks popping their greenpeace all these measures too little too late oh i wish we could have pop some champagne corks but they are way too little and they are too late it's never too late i guess i would say but i think if you look at the desire of the e.u. to lead and to actually forge of way forward that would address the climate emergency we needed a 65 percent target not a 55 percent target which is not up to snuff for what the scientists are calling for but that doesn't sound that much of a difference i mean how much of a difference does this make anyway if you look at global emissions and what the e.u. has just decided to cut the levels and makes a big difference i mean i think if you look at where the e.u. is emissions are currently looking to go it's a 46 percent reduction with existing measures so that 55 percent sounds quite big it's actually just a small incremental shift of what they were already planning to do and the e.u. is important globally it's a major player in the

2021 portugal will be taking over now let's bring in the xix of director of greenpeace international jennifer morgan jennifer champagne corks popping their greenpeace all these measures too little too late oh i wish we could have pop some champagne corks but they are way too little and they are too late it's never too late i guess i would say but i think if you look at the desire of the e.u. to lead and to actually forge a way forward that would address the climate emergency we needed a 65 percent target not a 55 percent target which is not up to snuff what the scientists are calling for but that doesn't sound that much of a difference i mean how much of a difference does this make anyway if you look at global emissions and what the e.u. has just decided to cut the levels and makes a big difference i mean i think if you look at where the e.u. is emissions are currently looking to go it's a 46 percent reduction with existing measures so although 55 percent sounds quite big it's actually just a small incremental shift of what they were already planning to do and the e.u. is important globally it's a major play

now let's bring in the executive director of greenpeace international jennifer morgan jennifer some pain colds popping their greenpeace all these measures too little too late oh i wish we could have pop some champagne corks but they are way too little and they are too late it's never too late i guess i would say but i think if you look at the desire of the e.u. to lead and to actually forge of way forward that would address the climate emergency we needed a 65 percent target not a 55 percent target which is not up to snuff for what the findings are calling for but that doesn't sound that much of a difference i mean how much of a difference does this make anyway if you look at global emissions and what the e.u. has just decided to cut the levels. it makes a big difference i mean i think if you look at where the e.u. submissions are currently looking to go it's a 46 percent reduction with existing measures so although 55 percent sounds quite big it's actually just a small incremental shift of what they were already planning to do and the e.u. is important globally it's a major player and m

jennifer morgan with us she's the executive director of greenpeace international in amsterdam jennifer thank you so much for joining us here and 1st of all i want to get your reaction on this side deal just reached in the european union do these targets go far enough. no they don't go far enough i think it's important to recognize that we're in a climate emergency right now and that every single percentage count what the e.u. agreed today is not commensurate with its historical responsibility or what the finance is telling us we need the european parliament asked for something at 60 percent of a reduction greenpeace has been asking and pushing for a 65 percent reduction and i think it's important to know that with what the u.s. already has in place it would get to a 46 percent reduction so it's not historic it's incremental and it's not a world leader response to what's needed at this moment of crisis unfortunately what about the objections from member states like hungary and poland that do rely heavily upon coal energy and find this is already a too ambitious goal what is your message to these member states. my message to them is that there is a much better future out there that their people are demanding for right now in a clean energy system in a clean energy system and one that is based on wind from the offshore of the northern coast of poland that one that's based on on efficiency and that this is the way the world is moving right now and if they want to be part of that economy moving forward this is this is the way to go coal is no longer you know a modern energy we're moving into something that's much more affordable clean and healthy for people jennifer tomorrow is the 5 year anniversary of the paris agreement on climate change where do we stand now from a global perspective. from a global perspective i think it's important to note that we have an alive vibrant international agreement where countries are working together where the defeat of a climate denier in the united states can breed more life into that and where we've seen countries coming forward with the long term targets to go to 0 emissions but we're also seeing that we're far away from what is needed we we see that we've had an increase of storms of fires i mean just think about this last year and what people have experienced and that the ambition to keep to shift away from the fossil fuel economy and to protect our forests is not yet great enough we need more action we need a response to the movements around the world that are commanded really the scale and the speed. that is commensurate with what scientists are saying so do you think that the targets that were agreed upo

now let's bring in the executive director of greenpeace international jennifer morgan jennifer some pain colds popping the green peas all these measures too little too late oh i wish we could have pop some champagne corks but they are way too little and they are too late it's never too late i guess i would say but i think if you look at the desire of the e.u. to lead and to actually for sure way forward that would address the climate emergency we needed a 65 percent target not.